• Dozent: Dr. Manfred Kufleitner (Raum 1.160, Tel. 0711 / 685-88231, Sprechstunde nach Vereinbarung)
  • Vorlesungen: Do 15:45–17:15 in V38.03

Inhalt

  • Presburger Arithmetik: Anforderungen an Automaten
  • Büchi Automaten und omega-reguläre Sprachen
  • Andere Akzeptanzbedingungen für omega-Automaten
  • Monadische Logik zweiter Stufe (MSO)
  • Deterministische omega-Sprachen
  • Topologisch definierte Sprachklassen
  • McNaughtons Theorem
  • Die Safra-Konstruktion
  • Algebraische Beschreibungen
  • Eindeutige Büchi Automaten
  • Logik erster Stufe und andere Fragmente von MSO

Übungsblätter

Literatur

  • Olivier Carton und Max Michel: Unambiguous Büchi automata. Theoretical Computer Science 297 (2003) 37-81.
  • Volker Diekert und Paul Gastin: First-order definable languages. In Jörg Flum, Erich Grädel, Thomas Wilke (eds.). Logic and Automata: History and Perspectives. Texts in Logic and Games 2, Amsterdam University Press 2008, pp. 261-306.
  • Dominique Perrin und Jean-Eric Pin: Infinite words: Automata, semigroups, logic, and games, Pure and applied mathematics series. Elsevier, 2004.
  • Wolfgang Thomas: Automata on infinite objects. In Jan van Leeuwen (ed.). Handbook of Theoretical Computer Science, volume B: Formal Models and Semantics. Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam, 1990, pp. 133-192.
  • Wolfgang Thomas: Languages, Automata, and Logic. In Grzegorz Rozenberg and Arto Salomaa. Handbook of Formal Languages, volume 3: Beyond Words. Springer, New York, 1997, pp. 389-455.

News

[Jun’23] The paper “Parallel algorithms for power circuits and the word problem of the Baumslag group” by Caroline Mattes and Armin Weiß has been accepted at Computational Complexity.

[Oct’22] The paper “Lower Bounds for Sorting 16, 17, and 18 Elements” by Florian Stober and Armin Weiß has been accepted at ALENEX 2023.

[Sep’22] The paper “Conelikes and Ranker Comparisons” by Viktor Henriksson and Manfred Kufleitner has been accepted at LATIN 2022.

[Sep’22] The paper “Improved Parallel Algorithms for Generalized Baumslag Groups” by Caroline Mattes and Armin Weiß has been accepted at LATIN 2022.

[Apr’22] The paper “Reachability Games and Parity Games” by Volker Diekert and Manfred Kufleitner has been accepted at ICTAC 2022.

[Apr’22] The paper “Satisfiability Problems for Finite Groups” by Pawel M. Idziak, Piotr Kawalek, Jacek Krzaczkowski and Armin Weiß has been accepted at ICALP 2022.

[Mar’22] The paper “The Power Word Problem in Graph Products” by Florian Stober and Armin Weiß was accepted at DLT 2022.

[Nov’20] Volker Diekert is Partner Investigator in the Australian ARC grant “Geodetic groups: foundational problems in algebra and computer science” at University of Technology Sydney.

[Apr’20] The paper “Groups with ALOGTIME-hard word problems and PSPACE-complete circuit value problems” by Laurent Bartholdi, Michael Figelius, Markus Lohrey and Armin Weiß has been accepted at CCC 2020.

[Apr’20] The paper “Hardness of equations over finite solvable groups under the exponential time hypothesis” by Armin Weiß has been accepted at ICALP 2020.

[Dec’19] The paper “An Automaton Group with PSPACE-Complete Word Problem” by Jan Philipp Wächter and Armin Weiß has been accepted at STACS 2020.

[Nov’19] Carlos Camino was awarded the stuvus Special Prize for exceptional commitment in teaching.

[Jun’19] The paper “The power word problem” by Markus Lohrey and Armin Weiß has been accepted at MFCS 2019.

[May’19] The paper “On the Average Case of MergeInsertion” by Florian Stober and Armin Weiß has been accepted at IWOCA 2019.

[Oct’18] The paper “Worst-Case Efficient Sorting with QuickMergesort” by Stefan Edelkamp and Armin Weiß has been accepted at ALENEX 2019.

[Jun’18] At CCC 2018, Lukas Fleischer received a Best Student Paper Award for his submission “On the Complexity of the Cayley Semigroup Membership Problem”.

[Jun’18] The paper “Testing Simon’s congruence” by Lukas Fleischer and Manfred Kufleitner was accepted at MFCS 2018.

[Jun’18] The paper “The Intersection Problem for Finite Semigroups” by Lukas Fleischer was accepted at DLT 2018.

[Apr’18] The paper “The isomorphism problem for finite extensions of free groups is in PSPACE” by Géraud Sénizergues and Armin Weiß was accepted at ICALP 2018.

[Apr’18] The paper “On the Complexity of the Cayley Semigroup Membership Problem” by Lukas Fleischer was accepted at CCC 2018.

[Jan’18] On March 24-29, 2019 Volker Diekert, Markus Lohrey, Olga Kharlampovich and Alexei Miasnikov will organize the Schloss Dagstuhl Seminar “Algorithmic Problems in Group Theory”.

[Dec’17] The paper “The Intersection Problem for Finite Monoids” by Lukas Fleischer and Manfred Kufleitner was accepted at STACS 2018.

[Jun’17] At the 12th International Computer Science Symposium in Russia (CSR), Lukas Fleischer and Manfred Kufleitner received a Best Paper Award for their publication “Green’s Relations in Finite Transformation Semigroups”, and Armin Weiss received a Best Paper Award for “The conjugacy problem in free solvable groups and wreath product of abelian groups is in $\text{TC}^0$ \text{TC}^0 “ which is joint work with Alexei Miasnikov and Svetla Vassileva.